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Getting to the Cloud Successfully!
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Getting to the Cloud Successfully!
Moderator– Kevin Dale, Rochelle Township HSD 212 Presenters: Mike Cloud, Peters & Associates
Christine Haeggquist, Computer Information Concepts
Francis Zelek, Oregon CUSD 220
The Cloud!Expression
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Profession
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Purchase
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Where I work
What‘s said about me
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What and how I buy
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What represent meWhat I sayWho I know
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Drivers for Cloud Computing:
Lower CostsIncreased Scalability
Increased Reliability & StabilityReduced Maintenance & Management Costs
11%of information workers visit
social networking sites for work
Social Computing Infrastructure Cost and Complexity 70
%of IT budgets is spent maintaining inflexible and siloed data center
equipment
4millionmillennials enter the workforce each year
MultigenerationalWorkforce Mobile and Distributed
Workforce84
%of organizations have a remote workforce
80%of large enterprise IT managers are at least
in trial stage for cloud computing initiatives
Rise of the Cloud
Increasingly demanding environment
What We’ve Been Seeing Move to the Cloud:
• Past 5 Years – Student Mgt Systems, Curriculum, Hosted Web sites, Niche software products
• Past 2 Years & Now: Email systems, Anti-spam/virus, file storage, More
• Leading Providers: Google, Microsoft, ….
Challenges in Getting to the Cloud:
• Internet Bandwidth, Reliability, & Performance• Concerns about Security, and Who has Access
to your Data• How do I get my data to the Cloud?• Who’s throat do I choke if I have issues?• How do I integrate multiple systems in Cloud,
on premise, etc.
Assess, Plan, & Prioritize
• Review & Assess your Key applications, usage, and compare to “Cloud” based versions.
• Assess, Test, & Increase Internet Bandwidth & Consider adding Redundancy & Reduce Single Points of Failure.
• Leverage Best Practices for Moving to cloud from vendors, other districts, and expert advisors.
Test, Pilot & Validate Before Migrating
• Some cloud providers allow for evaluation and testing for 30 days or longer.
• After a thorough evaluation of your options determine your best options and then conduct a pilot with a subset of your users to validate.
• While doing the pilot create a detailed migration plan and if needed leverage experienced resources to assist with the migration and training.
• Depending on application you may not need to do these processes.
Train Admin. Staff & End Users
• Your I.T. staff’s role may change depending on how much you move to the cloud and they should be trained accordingly.
• The more that end users can be trained and educated on usage of applications the less help desk issues you should see, and the better utilization of applications.
• In some situations it may require more communication to prepare for migration to the cloud.
Keyboarding OnlineWhy?
OrWhy not?
• Faster deployment• Vendor supported
Keyboarding OnlineInfrastructure –
Ours is 11mps in and out1 Gig from the Datacenter to closets
100 meg from the closets to the desktop
Keyboarding Online
Cost Estimate Per Year/Student $1.00 - $10.00
Applications:Email
Library Food Service
TransportationSIS
Financial/HR/Payroll